Cleaning device



Dec; 11, 1928. 1,895,023

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' JOSEPH SID Y REED, oE' HOUSTON, TEXAS.

CLEANING nEvIcE.

Application filed March 8, 1928. Serial No. 260,105;

a The present invention relates-to cleaning devices and more particularly to devices of this character for cleaning the mortar from reclaimed bricks, the invention embodying the provision of a rotatably mounted disk adapted to carry a plurality of cleaning pins 7 or prongs extending laterally from the face thereof against which the brick'may be held and through the rotary action of. the device to scrape and clean themortar from the brick,

A further object of the invention is to provide means for adj ustably mountlng the ends upon the disk so that upon the'wearing down of the pins, through usage, a suitable adjustment may be made so as to maintain the outer ends of the pins a uniform distance outwardly from the face of the disk.

A still further obj ect is to provide a device of this character of a simple and practical construction, which may beeasily and quickly attached and detached to any conventional rotating member, which rovides for the renewal of thecleaning on s from time to time as the same become worn, which is relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherwise well adapted to the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the special construction, combination and arrangement ofthe various elements forming.

the invention as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout and in which Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the device, and a Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially along a line 2-2 of'Figurel. Referring to the drawings in detail, the

invention comprises a pair of circular disks indicated at 5 and 6 respectively, having a central opening through which a set of at taching bolts 7 may be extended, saidbolts having one end threaded and inserted through openings formed in a retaining ring of a diameter slightly larger than the central opening formed in the disk and adapted to be fitted-over the opening of the outermost disk with the opposite end of said bolts formed into hooks 9 adapted for engagement with the spokes 10 of a fly wheel illand upon one side of'the fly wheel.

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of the bolt to secure the disks 5 and against The outer disk 6 is provided with a large threading nuts 15 on the outer threaded end i number of relatively small openings through which cleaning pins 12 extend, the innerends of said pinshaving heads 13 formed thereon and disposed in abutting relation with the adjacent face of the innermost disk 5, a relativelysmall number of said pins being provided with a series of washers or shims 14interposed between the head of the pins and the inner facev of the outer disk 6 whereby to space the disk in parallel relation with re spect to each other and so that'the outwardly disposed ends of the'pin will be maintained a predetermined distance outwardly from the face of said outer disk.

The flywheel 11 is adapted for rotation in any well known manner, it being obvious that by attaching the disks thereto in the manner indicated that the same will. also rotate together with the fly wheel. It will also be apparent that by holding theobject to be cleaned, as for instance a reclaimed brick which may be covered with quantity of mortar, against the face of the outer disk being provided with the pins at the rapid sectional movement of the ends of. the pins upon the brick will cause the mortar to be removed from the brick.

As the ends of the pins 12 become worn one ormore of the washers or shims 14 may be removed so that'the pins may always be maintained at a uniform distance outwardly from the faceof the disk. 1

Should the pins become worn to suchan V extent as to fail to protrude outwardly from the face of the disk the pins may then readily Itis obvious that my invention is suscepti:

ble to various changes and modificationsin construction without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claim, andI accordingly claim all such forms of the device to which I am e11- Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as new is':- i

'A cleaning device of the class described comprising a pair of disks, an attaching plate,

wheel attach ng'bolts carried by saiaplate and adapted for securing said disks in v parallel relation against one side of a supa plurality of shims reniombly carried by porting wheel for rotation therewith, the the pins and disposed between the disks outermost of said disks having a series of whereby to regulate the extent at which the 10 openings formed thereina cleaning' pins expins pmtrude from the outer most disk.

5 tended through said openings having heads In testlmony whereof Paflm y Signatureformed on their inner ends in abutting relation against the innermostof saidgdisks and i JGSEPH SIDNEY REED. 

